The morning of March 14, 1930, was a fairly ordinary one in the Oxford home of 11-year-old Venetia Burney. The schoolgirl was eating breakfast in the dining room while her grandfather, Falconer Madan, paged through that day’s edition of the Times of London.

But fate lay on page 14: a story about a newly discovered planet found at the far reaches of the solar system, she suggested to her grandfather they name it Pluto, he suggested it to an astronomer friend and so it goes…